Hour of the Pig, The

The middle ages are transcending into the renaissance era. Europe is changing. It usually takes a little longer in the country than in the cities. A young lawyer arrives in the countryside. He wants to spread the enlightenment of the new era. However, the world he encounters is far from enlightened; his first client turns out to be a pig, accused of murdering a small child. The owner of the pig is a young and beautiful gypsy woman.

The client is innocent, of course. The pig is a scapegoat. But higher powers has a finger in the pie; powers who want to keep the landscape in darkness. The leading character in the film is going to fight the local feudal lord. And by legally defending a pig, he will not only be fighting for his love for the pig's owner, but also paradoxically enough for a modern way at looking at things.

This story, one could say, is a regular fable, however humans are playing the leads.

Medverkande
Colin Firth, Amina Annabi, Ian Holm, Donald Pleasence, Jim Carter, Nicol Williamson, Joanna Dunham, Lysette Anthony, Justin Chadwick, Harriet Walter, Sophie Dix, Elizabeth Spriggs, Jean Pierre Stewart, Michael Gough: Producent
David Thompson, John Smithson, Claudine Sainderichin: Manus
Leslie Megahey: Foto
John Hooper: Talat språk
English